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clouts

  • plural
    of clout.
    clout
    noun
    a blow, especially with the hand; cuff.

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His clouts were described by The Times as “gigantic.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021

Makes some space and clouts Hazlewood over long-on.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2016

The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire’s mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2015

The liner off Steve Trachsel, the shortest of McGwire's mostly mammoth clouts that season, curled over the left-field wall at old Busch Stadium.

From US News ● Oct. 9, 2015

To cleanse ourselves of these “cast clouts and rotten rags” is the first thing to be done in the court of our prison.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin